Your actions in the open world are also tied closely to each main quest. Although the old menu-based quest option is still there if you want to merely move from mission to mission, traveling from one area to another gives you chances to find peaceful moments between each battle. This time, missions are picked up from non-player characters out in the world, and among the different cities that dot the landscape. Thankfully, any powerful weapons, items, or horses that you acquire carries over across every mission, mitigating some of the grind.ĭynasty Warriors 9's open world is the big game-changer here, and it works to the game's advantage in many ways. Seeing each battle from multiple perspectives is enthralling from a historical point of view-but it can mean playing through a lot of the same missions multiple times, which can be a little frustrating, given how similar each character feels on the battlefield. Playing through each chapter unlocks the next one along with more characters, unfolding the differing perspectives of each clan throughout each battle in a way that's equal parts fascinating and frustrating. From the beginning, you're limited to a choice of three officers: Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Liu Bei (the three lords of the Wei, Wu, and Shu clans, respectively). The entire story of the Three Kingdoms is told through the eyes of more than 80 separate playable characters from across four major clans-Wei, Wu, Shu, and Jin-as well as a handful of other smaller bit players. Given that the game's story mode is presented unconventionally, it can take a little while to figure out precisely what's going on. Although it suffers from a number of disappointing technical hitches and some typical open-world jank, Dynasty Warriors 9's sprawling campaign feels right at home in its new setting. While the feeling of cutting down entire formations of soldiers with a button press will feel more than familiar to fans of the series, the introduction of a massive open world changes the pacing in a way that allows the action to breathe. The story of Three Kingdoms-era China has been a mainstay of Dynasty Warriors since the days of the original PlayStation-and while it's gone through a number of iterations since then, Dynasty Warriors 9 represents the biggest shift away from the series' established formula since moving from a one-on-one fighting game to its more established musou form.
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